# χάλκεος
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* χᾰλκοῦς (khălkoûs) — Attic
* χᾰ́λκειος (khắlkeios), χᾰλκήιος (khălkḗios) — Epic

### Etymology

From χᾰλκός (khălkós, “copper”) +‎ -εος (-eos).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kʰál.ke.os/ → /ˈxal.ce.os/ → /ˈxal.ce.os/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /kʰál.ke.os/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈkʰal.ke.os/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈxal.ce.os/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈxal.ce.os/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈxal.ce.os/

### Adjective

χᾰ́λκεος • (khắlkeos) m (feminine χᾰλκέᾱ, neuter χᾰ́λκεον); first/second declension
* of copper or bronze, brazen
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.15
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.371
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 10.4
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.30
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.723
** 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Collected Works 3.84
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.317
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.335
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 7.220
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.398
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.440
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.331
** 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 1359
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 686
** 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Cyclops 392
** 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1591
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 711
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 683
** (of statues)
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.81
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 1.95
*** 343 BCE, Demosthenes, On the False Embassy 272
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, On Organization 21
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1410A.33
*** 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On the Mysteries 38
** (χἀλκεος ἀγών) a contest for a shield of brass
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 10.22
* (figuratively) brazen, hard, stout, strong
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.704
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.152
** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Demosthenes 11
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 8.27
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.490
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.222
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.241
** 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 1

#### Derived terms

* χαλκεόφωνος (khalkeóphōnos)
* χαλκῆ μυῖα (khalkê muîa, “a boy's game, a sort of blind man's buff”)

#### Descendants

* → Translingual: Chalceus

### References

* “χάλκεος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “χάλκεος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “χάλκεος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* χάλκεος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* χάλκεος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* “χάλκεος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. brazen idem, page 94.bronze idem, page 100.copper idem, page 173.